Category: Policy

Sarah Moreland-Russell and Pew’s Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance

Antibiotic resistance is one of the most pressing public health threats of our time, and over the past decade, the Pew Charitable Trusts has been at the forefront of efforts to address it. A recent independent evaluation of Pew’s antibiotic resistance project—led by experts including Sarah Moreland-Russell, an associate professor at Washington University in St. […]

PRC faculty, Sarah Moreland-Russell awarded two new grants

R01 – Examining system-wide implementation of new flexibilities to the National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs. This 4 year, 2.65 million dollar grant is funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute (NIH-NHLBI). In 2018, a significant policy change to the National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs issued flexibilities, relaxing nutrition standards […]

PRC Director Ross Brownson describes path forward for public health on AJPH podcast

For their November 2020 podcast, the American Journal of Public Health asks the questions, “Why is there a need to reinvent public health,” and “What should be the essential traits of the reinvented public health system?” Authors of the November issue of AJPH, including PRC Director Ross Brownson, discuss what an improved public health system […]